Crossword clues for mandala
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
magic circle, 1859, from Sanskrit mandala "disc, circle."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Hinduism Buddhism English) A graphic depiction of the spiritual universe and its myriad realms and deity. 2 (context Hinduism Buddhism English) Any ritualistic geometric design, symbolic of the Universe, used as an aid to meditation. 3 A division or book of the Rigveda (of which there are 10).
WordNet
n. any of various geometric designs (usually circular) symbolizing the universe; used chiefly in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation
Wikipedia
A mandala ( Sanskrit: मण्डल, lit, circle) is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Indian religions, representing the universe. In common use, "mandala" has become a generic term for any diagram, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically; a microcosm of the universe.
The basic form of most mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point. Each gate is in the general shape of a T. Mandalas often exhibit radial balance.
The term appears in the Rigveda as the name of the sections of the work, but is also used in other religions and philosophies, particularly Buddhism.
In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space, and as an aid to meditation and trance induction.
Maṇḍala is a Sanskrit word that means "circle". The mandala is a model for describing the patterns of diffuse political power distributed among Mueang or Kedatuan (principalities) in early Southeast Asian history, when local power was more important. The concept of a mandala counteracts modern tendencies to look for unified political power, i.e., the power of large kingdoms and nation states of later history — an inadvertent byproduct of 15th-century advances in map-making technologies. In the words of O. W. Wolters who further explored the idea in 1982:
The map of earlier Southeast Asia which evolved from the prehistoric networks of small settlements and reveals itself in historical records was a patchwork of often overlapping mandalas.
It is employed to denote traditional Southeast Asian political formations, such as federation of kingdoms or vassalized polity under a center of domination. It was adopted by 20th century European historians from ancient Indian political discourse as a means of avoiding the term " state" in the conventional sense. Not only did Southeast Asian polities not conform to classical Chinese and European views of a territorially defined state with fixed borders and a bureaucratic apparatus, but they diverged considerably in the opposite direction: the polity was defined by its centre rather than its boundaries, and it could be composed of numerous other tributary polities without undergoing administrative integration.
In some ways similar to the feudal system of Europe, states were linked in suzerain– tributary relationships. Compared to feudalism however, the system gave greater independence to the subordinate states; it emphasised personal rather than official or territorial relationships; and it was often non-exclusive. Any particular area, therefore, could be subject to several powers, or none.
Mandala was a Canadian R&B and soul band from the 1960s. The band was formed in 1965 in Toronto as The Rogues and changed their name prior to their first Canadian Top 40 hit "Opportunity".
The band is best known for containing well-known Canadian guitarist, the late Domenic Troiano who recorded with The James Gang and The Guess Who in the Seventies. The band also contained Roy Kenner, who later became the lead singer with the James Gang, both during and after the period when Troiano was lead guitarist with that band.
Mandala is a 1981 South Korean film about Buddhist monks in Korea. This is considered by many critics to be director Im Kwon-taek's breakthrough film as a cinematic artist.
Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning "circle". It is a symbol of significance in Hinduism and Buddhism.
It may also refer to:
- The Mandala a rock climing hold
Mandala is the sixth full-length studio album from Rx Bandits. Released on July 21, 2009, it is the band's second album released through Sargent House, and their first as a 4-piece band.
"Mandala" is the eleventh episode of the second season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the eighteenth overall episode of the series. It was written by George Mastras and directed by Adam Bernstein. This episode introduces Gus Fring, played by Giancarlo Esposito.
Mandala is an album by Kitarō, released in 1994. This is his first studio album for Domo Records. It was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1994 for Best New Age Album.
Mandala is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo. It premiered on 12 October 1987 and ended on 14 May 1988, with a total of 185 episodes. It's the thirty eighth "novela das oito" to be aired on the timeslot. It is created by Dias Gomes and directed by Ricardo Waddington.
Usage examples of "mandala".
In this sense, the Mandala is an archetypal form generated by unconscious nature well prior to the evolution of human consciousness.
This has led Joseph Campbell to suggest that one archetype of the Mandala is the archetype of differentiated, urban civilization itself.
His ignorance they set about to rectify, teaching him as they would a child about samsara and its cycles of birth, death, and rebirth, and about the Great Mandala, the Wheel of Time.
The chamber was furnished with ascetic simplicity: a mat over a bare stone floor, a washstand, and a terminal with holo vitrine displaying a changing mandala.
No panthers or skulls, no dragons or nudes, these tattoos offered an unexpected jungle of pure design, spirals and knots, mazes and mandalas, interwoven and overlapped in a deliberate thwarting of the desire for representation, this prime example of tribal Hackwork spoke to an inner, more private eye.
And indeed in the Heian period the exceptional visual attraction of the mandalas and other Shingon icons greatly helped to endear esotericism to the Kyoto courtiers, who were finely sensitive to beauty in all its forms.
From the concept of a central Tathagata in the mandalas as well as the notion of a Supreme Buddha principle beyond the five manifestations, an Adi Buddha or Primordial Buddha was evolved, usually called Vajradhara or Vajrasattva but Samantabhadra among the rNying-ma-pa.
Most of a three-dimensional mandala in stucco existed until recently in a western Tibetan temple and elsewhere in western Tibet, including Ladakh, stucco modelling in the round or in high relief has been recorded.
Such groups - for this was no mass movement - practised consecrations, using mandalas for initiations and ritualised sex to express or attain the union or elimination of opposites.
Lamaism into the structure of the doctrine of emanations, the Tantric systems with their organisation by mandalas and the functional distribution into tutelaries and protectors.
Inside the walls were painted with mandalas, figures of gods, saints and demons.
The bar-do mandala or sets of mandalas illustrated peaceful and wrathful deities, all of them emanations of Samantabhadra as the Supreme Buddha, which appeared to the dead person in a given sequence within a period of forty-nine days between his death and rebirth or liberation.
Tantric texts multiplied so did the prescribed combinations for a mandala, differing in respect of ritual intention, sectarian affiliation and the visionary experience of the practitioner.
But Laidlaw also presents a kind of flesh-hating antimaterialism more typical of contemporary horror stories: the punky ex-addict Lenore, possessed by the mandalas, is "sickened to think of her own bones trapped and smothered in flesh, except for teeth standing like outcrops of rock, small peaks protruding from a thick red sea.
Winnie looked exhausted already, and two were still missing: Ansel Tarr and Asham Mandala.